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Bureaucrats Befuddled By America's Auto Market
Capitol Confidential ^
| 1/21/2014
| Manny Lopez
Posted on 01/22/2014 6:06:20 AM PST by MichCapCon
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To: MichCapCon
I will donate $100 to the DNC if Debbie Stabenow can get her fat ass inside a Chevy Spark..
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posted on
01/22/2014 6:14:08 AM PST
by
ken5050
(This space available cheap...)
To: MichCapCon
I wonder what kind of car Debbie drives?
If it isn’t electric or a hybrid, then she’s a hypocrite.
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posted on
01/22/2014 6:15:16 AM PST
by
Fresh Wind
(The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
To: Fresh Wind
I wonder if she ever thinks about where the electricity that powers an electric car actuallly comes from. I’m convnced that most Lefties think it appears by some some sort of Harry Potter magic.
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posted on
01/22/2014 6:21:01 AM PST
by
Pecos
(The Chicago Way: Kill the Constitution, one step at a time.)
To: MichCapCon
"Well always make the cars and trucks that people want," he said. "I think the automobile industry is always going to be driven by economics." This is American thinking. Leftists don't think that way.
They think "we should make it a law that people must drive only the cars that we allow them to drive, because we know better".
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posted on
01/22/2014 6:21:47 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: Fresh Wind
Not sure that she’s a hypocrite if she truly believes that the masses should drive Sparks
while the ruling class drives around in Lincoln Navigators.
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posted on
01/22/2014 6:23:16 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: MichCapCon
It’s not going to work while the left has the option of additional force.
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posted on
01/22/2014 6:24:01 AM PST
by
Navy Patriot
(Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
To: MichCapCon
I want to see her drive her “baby” through Sprinfield exit at 5:10pm on I-95 DC to Richmond.
I have a ute and think it’s too small.
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posted on
01/22/2014 6:24:52 AM PST
by
OpusatFR
To: MichCapCon
I want to see her drive her “baby” through Sprinfield exit at 5:10pm on I-95 DC to Richmond.
I have a ute and think it’s too small.
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posted on
01/22/2014 6:24:53 AM PST
by
OpusatFR
To: MichCapCon
I drive a Ford CMax Energi. Love it so far. Great MPG equivalent. The plug-in hybrid is cool. It could be better if it ran on coal. No, I am not a tree-hugger.
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posted on
01/22/2014 6:25:59 AM PST
by
firebasecody
(Orthodoxy, proclaiming the Truth since AD 33)
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posted on
01/22/2014 6:26:40 AM PST
by
deoetdoctrinae
(Gun-free zones are playgrounds for felons.)
To: MichCapCon
“This is my baby,” she said turning back to admire the micro car. “
Until she gets back into her Black Escalade.
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posted on
01/22/2014 6:26:47 AM PST
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: Navy Patriot
That’s ubiquitous in the leftist mindset, and why they love government so much -
“people just won’t do the right thing unless we force them to”
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posted on
01/22/2014 6:27:19 AM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: MichCapCon
In the sixties and seventies there were consumer advocates who fought the car companies who purposefully limited the lives of cars so they would sell more. planned obsolescence. Vance Packard made his bones on this subject.
Now we have good looking cars whose lives are limited by the complexity of the electronics. I have had to trash two nice looking cars because the electronic fixes were too expensive and they wouldn't make inspection without them. Planned obsolescence. And corporatist leftists just loooove it.
Same with appliances.
To: MichCapCon
“I tried to restrain myself as McCarthy emerged from a tiny Chevy Spark tucked along a wall at the General Motors display. “
A throwaway car to appease government regulators. Cost of doing business to the car companies. We all get to pay for it in the end.
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01/22/2014 6:29:26 AM PST
by
headstamp 2
(What would Scooby do?)
To: firebasecody
If your local power plants are coal fired, it is running on coal.
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posted on
01/22/2014 6:30:58 AM PST
by
E.Allen
To: Fresh Wind
Probably a big old Mercedes sedan... loaded.
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posted on
01/22/2014 6:31:29 AM PST
by
LibLieSlayer
(FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
To: MichCapCon
epa administrator Gina Mccarthy and "her baby", the Chevy Spark"
"This is my baby," she said turning back to admire the micro car.
I guess we know where it got its looks then.
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posted on
01/22/2014 6:31:34 AM PST
by
RC one
To: firebasecody
I looked at one of those and was disappointed by the lack of trunk space.
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01/22/2014 6:32:05 AM PST
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01/22/2014 6:32:34 AM PST
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